Hello everyone,

I just want to know if there is a difference in performance between using Class methods versus MAC routines?

For example:

do Method^MyFunction()

versus

do ##class(MyFunction).Method()

In a HL7 Business Rule, I want to create a custom function that works on an HL7 message object (ENSLIB.HL7.Message).  I extended the Ens.Rule.FunctionSet class, and have a class method that accept a ENSLIB.HL7.Message obj -

ClassMethod myfunction(msg As EnsLib.HL7.Message) As %Boolean,  so I can call   myfunction(HL7)  in the rule's condition

The problem is, it seems that I can only use absolute property paths such as msg.GetValueAt("1:9.2") but not a path containing HL7 segment name,  for example as in msg.GetValueAt("MSH:9.2").  This is a huge limitation.

Is there anyway to use the HL7 vdoc property path with segment names in it in my custom function?

Thank you

Wil